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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






2. Fats can lead to some medical problems






3. What is the function of vitamin E?






4. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






5. What type of people need extra protein?






6. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






7. How many calories/gram is protein?






8. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






9. Sources of fats






10. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






11. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






12. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






13. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






14. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






15. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






16. What is RDA of protein?






17. When does BMR increase?






18. Name six sources of grains






19. What function is vitamin A?






20. What is the function of vitamin C?






21. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






22. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






23. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






24. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






25. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






26. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






27. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






28. Where can you get more vitamin D?






29. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






30. When does BMR decrease?






31. What function is vitamin D?






32. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






33. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






34. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






35. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






36. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






37. What does DASH stand for?






38. What is normal BMI?






39. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






40. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






41. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






42. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






43. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






44. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






45. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






46. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






47. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






48. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






49. What foods have high quality protein?






50. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems